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Hi All,
I wanted to know if there is any way in SMP to save the video that is currently being viewed to a file? (or save the video segments in case of dynamic streaming, and make a video out of it). I basically want to compare the "watched video" to the original video and do some analysis on the observed performance.
I thought it might be good to start a new thread for this. My initial post was here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/707393?tstart=0
Thanks much for the help.
SR

The source you can modify is in OSMF core framework not in SMP. Also, the application must be a stand along player such as an AIR application. A Flash based application cannot store the frames to a file.
For http dynamic streaming, OSMF downloads each fragment and send it to the Flash Player. What you want is to store the fragments in files. You can take a look at HTTPStreamingF4FIndexHandler. It has two methods of your interest: getFileForTime and getNextFile. It is quite clear at the source where you can get the URLs to the fragments and go from there.
-Wei Zhang
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Adobe Systems, Inc.
[email protected]

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